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October 10, 2012
This week on The Confab: Join Staff Writer Jenée Desmond-Harris and Assistant Editor Akoto Ofori-Atta as they chat with professor Jelani Cobb about things some people just don't get about Obama's cultural significance. Plus: The worst habits of rappers.
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by Jelani Cobb onOctober 9, 2012
In a piece for the New Yorker, Jelani Cobb explains how the Obama presidency has "validated both our hopes and our fears and given dueling legitimacy to optimism and cynicism simultaneously."
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJuly 29, 2012
Browner America: But demographic shifts might not mean more black political power, Jelani Cobb says.
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March 31, 2011
From Terry McMillan to Colson Whitehead, the Twitterverse is filled with the musings of black writers.
